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  1. 32 minutes ago, Sception said:

    I'm confused where you think Vlad would come into things.  Have there been rumors of his return?  Has he shown up in lore books that I'm unaware of?  Honestly, I would kind of prefer if Vlad be mostly left in the oldhammer past.  I'm all for undoing or retconning pointless, gratuitous deaths of old favorite characters and bringing them back in one form or another for a chance to build on and pay off unresolved character arcs.  I love what we've seen of Drycha, Arkhan, and so on in Age of Sigmar.  But of all the big name characters who died in the end times, I think Vlad probably had the *best* showing in terms of his personal narrative, and the best in terms of paying off his character.  I just don't think there's anything more or better that GW's writers could do with him, and wouldn't want to undercut his End Times swan song just to do smaller and less interesting things with him in AoS.

    Then again, I was skeptical of bringing him back for the End Times as well, as I thought his old Vampire Wars story was already complete in itself and bringing him back would only undercut that as well, and I was wrong there, so it's entirely possible that I could prove wrong again if the writers do bring him back.

    That said, there are some oldhammer undead characters that I would love to see return, characters who I think had a lot of narrative potential left over that wasn't really fulfilled, character arcs that hadn't been resolved.  Abhorash for one.  Khalida for another.  And there is a Von Carstein who I think has lots of juicy story and character potential that mostly went overlooked, at least by the game lore: Isabella.

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    She was always a sort of side show to Vlad, we never really got to see her perspective, what she thought or wanted apart from an infatuation with Vlad that itself could have just been a mind-controlled reflection of Vlad's infatuation with himself.  The first time around, Isabella killed herself when Vlad died, but in the end times Vlad killed himself to save her.  Killing herself again, or even just accepting death from the rift, would be a betrayal of that sacrifice.  Imagine an Isabella who chose to live (unlive?) instead to honor that sacrifice, imagine what she might have become in the millenia since?  A lot of potential there, I think.  Doing a gender-flipped version of the classic Strahd / Coppola's-Dracula gimmick of the ancient and powerful vampire recognizing a reincarnation of their long lost love when she thinks she finds an echo of Vlad's soul in some young Cities of Sigmar hero or memory-wiped Stormcast champion, and creepily trying to groom them to match her memory of Vlad while the heroic maybe-vlad-maybe-not struggles to resist her influence, that would probably be the least creative and interesting thing you could do with an AoS era Isabella, and that's already a book I'd absolutely want to read, and Isabella reimagined as an ancient and powerful baroque vampire lord in her own right, if not a mortarch herself, is a model that I would love to field on the table.  Like, that face and hair, but wearing some baroque elaborate armor, and riding some majestic undead monster or flying soul engine throne or the like?  Come on.  Tell me that wouldn't be amazing.

    And Khalida's only just behind in potential, IMO.  For the longest time I thought she was a relatively one note charater.  Mummy queen.  Hates vampires.  Hates neferata most of all.  Not a lot of dimensionality to it.  But then came end times, and I got to see a side of Khalida that probably existed before, but that I hadn't seen myself.  A Khalida with other goals than just killing Neferata, Khalida hiding the remains of her not-quite-dead god within her, Khalida willing to serve Nagash in order to preserve that god, and the memory of her fallen homeland, rather than see both destroyed by defying him.  A Khalida who faced the end of the world hand in hand with the cousin who she so hated, their rivalry rendered meaningless by the end of the world.  I'd love to see what a khalida free from the chains of her hatred could do in AoS.  Imagine Neferata subtly undermining nagash - never openly defying him, but still acting to protect the land and people under her dominion from the creeping doom of the Ossiarchs, fighting off invading chaos and stormhost forces and in the process consolidating territory and control in Shyish away from the bonereapers while Katakros's legions are committing all their strength to the fight for the 8 points.  Imagine Nagash raising up Neferata's ancient enemy as a mortarch in order to counter neferata and distract her with an old rivalry - but while they openly fight and oppose each other, behind the scenes they're working together to build and defend a civilization built in Nehekharas image that is as much Khalida's as Neferatas.

    Honestly, Khalida and Isabella were both with Neferata at the end of the end times, and either or both of them could work as allies for Neferata that could help build up her role as a character.  Which is needed because honestly, tie in novels aside, the AoS lore seems not to have any more idea of what to do with her than the oldhammer lore did.  Bringing in some co-conspirators for her to scheme with might help that out.

    As for Abhorash, well, I know the Carrion King is implied to maybe be Ushoran, but Abhorash strikes me as much more likely to defy Nagash out of some misplaced sense of virtue, and the FEC's self image as noble crusading knights and the abhorants delusion of being virtuous warrior kings fits very well with how Abhorash liked to see himself.  I think a reveal that the carrion king is actually Abhorash could work really well.  But maybe that's just me.

     

    Regardless, back in 1e I complained a lot about how the only important movers and shakers in Grand Alliance Death were oldhammer holdovers, and that we needed some 'fresh blood', so to speak, so that we could have important characters with histories and motivations rooted in the current game.  Then came the Nighthaunt battle tome, and the OBR battle tome, and between the two of them we have enough interesting new characters that I think we could bring back one or two more oldhammer undead without upsetting the balance overmuch.  Again, Vlad wouldn't be my first choice, but even then I've been proved wrong before, and wouldn't be annoyed if I were proved wrong again.

    Surely if they DID bring back Vlad, though, it would be in a Soulblight book, not an updated LoN?

     

    My preferred format for the death grand alliance as a whole is still to have several faction books - OBR, Nighthaunt, Soulblight, FEC, maybe a deadwalkers/death mages zombie apocalypse + nightmarish necromantic experiments faction, maybe an expanded deathrattle list with some TK elements - though OBR probably forecloses that option, maybe some neat new undead elf faction if Nagash ever gets his hand on a sufficient pile of elf souls, etc, each with their own mortarch or mortarchs as appropriate, and then have a 'Deathlords' book with Nagash, reprinted mortarchs, any other miscelaneous undead that haven't found their way into a specific subfaction yet, and a revised legion rules that combine units from various subfactions.  Like maybe arkhan gets OBR and Deadwalkers/death mages, Neferata gets soulblight + deathrattle, and so on, with Nagash's grand host getting everything and functionally replacing the generic grand alliance death rules.

    But honestly, GW seems to have been moving away from integration and interactivity across death subfactions, a trend resulting in the OBR, who can't even ally with any other death faction, and if other death factions could take them as allies there still wouldn't be much reason to what with how much their units rely on their unique relentless discipline rules.

    Honestly, I have no idea where GW goes with future Death releases at this point, apart from the seemingly inevitable stand alone soulblight faction, and maybe expansions to the OBR and FEC ranges.

    Yeah what I meant by 'updated LoN' is really the focus on traditional vamps I.e soulblight, didn't mean the army will still be called LoN, in fact I think it is much more likely they soulblight will be the focus.

     

    I didn't mean I thought or heard that hes coming back, just an example of a cool vamp. I do love vlad and hope he comes back but I doubt it. The reason I mention him is because hes always been a sort of icon/leader for vampires and he could well be this again. If I'm honest though I'm just wanting an awesome vampire character, would be happy with updated mannfred.

     

    I would love to see any of the other characters you mentioned as well don't get me wrong. And the death of characters in the end times is a little different when considering characters from the death allegiance. Vlad was a vampire and with rumours that he himself was neferatas husband (forget his name) and supped the elixir from nagash making him immortal in a sense.

     

    In regards to heroes that died in the end times, the only ones coming back to 'life' that make the most sense are vampires and similar. Hell arkhan has died and hes still here in AoS. Eltharian was killed by arkhan himself and hes made some sort of appearance. Durthu, allarielle, teclis, hints at tyrion eventually and malekith/malerion, neferata, drycha, skarbrand, kairos, skulltaker, archaon, the changeling, blue scribes, morathi, nagash, thanquol, lord kroak etc. There are so many from the 'world that was' here in AoS, so why not vlad?

     

    I understand most of them didn't die like Vlad did, and a lot became Gods, but as I say it would be easy to resurrect a lord of death in lore and have it make sense, it has been done before. I get what you're saying about his story but I think it would be cool.

     

    Again, I do not think it's likely, I merely mentioned his name as an example.

     

  2. 48 minutes ago, Honk said:

    Sure, throw in real Soulblight, and maybe true Living syish people (undying king style)... and vampire coast, of course 

    then make Nagash great again in a true great alliance Death, like the former „deathlords“... 

     

    I seriously hope they do this. I'd love proper soulblight with new rules for manny and maybe introduce vlad

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  3. 12 hours ago, Honk said:

    Sad but true,

    to see the namesake of a faction being ripped out and dropped into a new one... a bit uninspired Gdubs.

    Really hoping this leads to the updated LoN being vlad/manny/neffy focused.

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  4. 16 hours ago, Sception said:

    I'm not super familiar with the meta these days.  Does /anyone/ use Spellportal apart from Nagash?  Because if not, I'd honestly rather see the points on the portals dropped by like half or more, and hand of dust erratad to not be castable through the portal.

    Lord of change, kairos, teclis,  Arkhan.. pretty much all great casters benefit from the portal massively.

  5. 7 minutes ago, Gistradagis said:

    Playing Maggotkin, I do get that (although we do have a couple of strong options). Nevertheless, I'm guessing they'll release more stuff later on, and this was some sort of soft reset after realizing they had overdone it a bit with the Malign Sorcery artefacts.

    Let's hope so. As LoN/GA death player I have some okay options too, but was nice to have some really good ones alongside and give more choice. (That may sound odd as legions have like 18 artefacts 6 per legion, but the majority are very odd and/or one use only which I'm not a fan of).

     

    I also play frequently with an avid bretonnia fan who's king, at 400 points, will now be hugely worse without access to rend 3, ethereal or the sword of judgement. I suppose he may not even be around anymore...

     

    I guess the thing is, I don't often play 100% competitive games, and we can just have a house rule for games where we can use the old artefacts, however I like being able to play an awesome battle and come out of it thinking I could use that army at a tournament, which I couldn't do with house rules.

  6. 2 minutes ago, Gistradagis said:

    What? Forgive me if you took something weird from my message, but in which world is "well duh" considered an insult...? Bit odd to say that while being so implicitly rude, but apologies if you took it that way, then.

    As for the artefacts, how some of them were so good while the vast majority were worthless was precisely what they wanted to fix, I guess, and to push faction artefacts. And my point was that comparing an artefact that you can pick and use anywhere to effects reserved to particular factions doesn't make much sense.

    I think the issue will now be that no one uses the realm ones. Whilst I agree it was annoying always seeing the same artefacts in use, these new ones seem distinctly lackluster.

     

    It's the older armies that will suffer the most. With arguably the best one being rerolling 1s to save, which all armies have multiple ways of getting already.

  7. 9 minutes ago, Maturin said:

    Artifacts on a bubble ? Dude, before you "duh" me, please correct your sentence. It's weird.

    You have your opinion, I have mine. I just gave you an example of a unit in a specific faction that gives a better ability than this artifact does.
    Plus, I compared former artifacts, which for certain of them quite powerful and interesting, to those dull new ones.
    I also compared said artifact to the ability EVERY faction have, albeit for a CP.

    You don't like what I say? It's ok, you've got the right to. But please be civil and nice.

    Yeah all the new artefacts suck, pretty much every tome has better artefacts but I guess that's what they're going for.

     

    Lots of armies have now lost the option to push through tanky units. No more rend 3 artefacts for anyone, no more mortals on 6s etc. 

     

    On a side note, no more ethereal VLoZD, no more 4++ saves etc.

     

    Older armies will suffer from this.

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  8. 22 minutes ago, EMMachine said:

    The Chalice of Ushoran is triggered by the active player. This is stated in the Errata:

    Were the Ghouls the only unit that could return models, because in your opponents turn your opponent choses which units heal wounds or get Models back.

    He is actually only resticted to units that can be healed or can return slain models.

    So the Chalice is definetly a player ability used by the active player while looking who controlls an objective is a game ability.

    The errata only states that the active player chooses which to heal, the first sentence of the spell rule is still 'at the end of each turn roll a dice....' so the chalice triggers from the game phases, the player who's turn it is then gets to choose which units to apply this to, but they must be applied and in this situation it was only ghouls nearby. I then choose where to put them back on the board.

     

    The question is whether this happens before game scoring or not, which I assume it should but definitely not clear.

  9. 14 minutes ago, Marrdt said:

    I was looking through the Core rules and all the Erratas and I could not find how the "Game rules" are ordered in relation to the player abilities.

    One way to look at it is that the "Game" has its own "abilities" or triggers which always take precedence over any other abilities, which is essentially what you guys did. Its what I would have done as well.

    EDIT: You could argue the other way around as well I guess. Active player - inactive player - game. Something that needs to be agreed upon, by the players involved.

    Maybe someone else can figure out a better answer from the rules resources available to us.

    Yeah, it's a weird one for sure and I'm surprised it hasnt had an faq!

  10. 39 minutes ago, Marrdt said:

    Core rules, page 13.
    Under Warscrolls, Abilities:

     

    Edit: Haven't been able to find a reference to whether the end of turn scoring is considered an ability. Will keep looking.
     

    Yeah this is what we did essentially. Although looking back on it, the endless spell is not 'my' ability, the endless spell is it's own model and triggers at the end of both players turns if that makes sense?

     

    I guess I paid the points and I cast it, but still it has it's own ability that triggers at the end of both turns.

     

    I think it makes most sense to follow the rules we did otherwise it creates some fairly unfair situations.

  11. 54 minutes ago, Honk said:

    Well, the Nagash-Morghast Mortal wounds „ping-pong“ was ridiculous and was rightfully faqed. To negate his undead save, because he has his armor is a stupid nerf. Same goes for the unholy vitality spell on FEC units (GkoTg or other targets) where I don’t think a 6+++ last resort is too much to ask.
    Nagashs petrifex elite power makes him the most expensive model in the whole game, just as a sidenote...

    we‘ll see how things develop, I guess

    I'm talking about the immortis guard which hasnt been faqd and the downright silly amount of ward saves certain units can benefit from. Getting a 5++ from spell instead of 6++ death save will be fine and barely noticeable for the most part whilst quashing the silly combos you could get before.

     

    IMO there should never have been multiple 'after' saves in the first place. My only worry is that more and more armies are getting massive access to mortal wounds everywhere but I assume that may well be addressed in the future if this rule goes down well.

     

    Hell I've done 3 games recently as FEC and my 6++ on the GKoT was successful maybe once or twice. I just wouldn't be so quick to jump the gun and think it's a disastrous change.

     

    And on that sidenote, points cost are not based on subfactions.

  12. 42 minutes ago, Honk said:

    Which is a big nerf for our suicide kings... or even the non-suicidal ones.

    the 6++ undead is a last straw while the 5++ at least something like a save. 
    for a central „kill ASAP“ target like our king a pretty big bummer.

    lamentation and grudges were also yelled by the naked shorties. Not sure about their rules, but they had double „Ward-saves“ too, iirc 

    Pushes strong armor saves/ignore rend or „real (50%)“ wards like Aelves get 🙁 

     

    not a fan 🤷🏿‍♀️

    I'm all for it. Yeah it is a slight nerf for FEC but it gets rid of the ridiculous stuff like nagash having 2+ rerollable armour then 2+ shrug to guard with 5++, 5++, 6++. If nagash himself rolls a 1 to shrug and the wounds go on to him, ge gets 4++, 5++, 6++ and can heal himself and guard 3 per turn.

     

    The tanky stuff you can get was starting to get stupid. Mortal wounds will now be more deadly, as they should, and if it means I have to sacrifice a single 6+ ward when I cast a 5++ spell with an incredibly damaging GK I'm all for it.

     

    I wouldnt call choosing the 5++ over the 6++ a 'big' nerf and it will probably make very little difference for the most part and if it gets rid of stupidly tanky stuff at the same time then that's a bonus.

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  13. Okay so I played FEC and played against Lumineth.

     

    At one point, it was my opponents turn, he had killed enough of my ghouls to capture the objective they were on.

     

    However, I had the chalice up, and so 16 ghouls came back and I Congo lined them to the objective that his cow had just killed a load off, meaning I now outnumbered him on said objective.

     

    My question is this - it was my opponents turn, and both calculating objective scoring and ghouls returning from the chalice are done 'at the end of the turn'.

     

    So does he capture it, score and then my ghouls come back? Or does he not capture it because my ghouls come back? Which happens first?

     

    We played that he captured it, then scored and then my ghouls came back, seeing as how it was his turn we decided it was best to use the rules similar to 'start of phase' abilities, where the player who's turn it is does all their 'start of phase' abilities before the opposing player does their 'start of phase' abilities and then the phase properly commences.

     

    Anyone able to confirm this?

  14. 12 minutes ago, Fireymonkeyboy said:

    Seems to be a running debate is this means only one save of any kind ever (which nerfs us hugely), or only no stacking aftersaves (which is a bit of a nerf).  Even if the former, it means we still have improvable protection from MW, yeah?

     

    FMB

    It's one 'ward save' only - death units will still get their normal armour save and their 6++ ward save allegiance thing.

     

    The leak clearly states only 1 dice roll per wound or mortal wound allocated.

     

    The rules go like this - attacker attacks and wounds, unit takes armour save, failed armour saves go through to allocate wounds. It is at this wound allocation point that special 'ward saves' kick in like the flesh eaters 6++ one, so they still get that special ward save after their armour save, but no others.

     

    This means that if the GKoTG casts his spell on himself, he will get his armour save and then have to choose he 5++ from his spell, or the 6++ from the allegiance ability, not use both.

  15. 3 minutes ago, Black_Templar_Lad said:

    I remember the team stating each GA will be able to take a mega gargant. Wonder why they're listed with no allies. 

    They can be 'hired' by any army is the lore they were going for.

     

    Sons of Behemat allegiance can have no allies, it'll be all the other armies that get an update of some kind to allow them to use one.

     

    Kinda like bonereapers have no allies but GA death can still use them

  16. 5 minutes ago, The Brotherhood of Necros said:

    I absolutely can’t wait to play around with the hero creator. All my armies (and characters) are converted and I love writing lore to bring them to life, but I’ve always had to ‘make do’ with proxies on the table. Nobody I play against would bat an eyelid about me bringing a lore-friendly hero I’ve created to game and I couldn’t be more excited! 

    Yeah I'm most excited for this. Going from the choice of a 5 wound vamp to 440 point dragon lord just doesnt cut it. I cant wait for the options.

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  17. 1 minute ago, Azamar said:

    Sorry that was a bad example then (and means I didn’t spot it was wrong when I was on the receiving end it). But my point was that you can still make an armour save, then use an ability to ignore each wound suffered. 
     

    Fwiw, I totally agree negating a wound isn’t the same as deflecting it to another friendly unit, so you can still make both with the new rule. That was just the biggest (albeit incorrect) number of stacking rolls I could think of.

    Yeah I wasnt trying to be a **** or anything, was just giving details so you can be prepared next battle! Or not if this new rule is true haha

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  18. 1 minute ago, ReyD1 said:

    So Sons of Behemat has no named character ?
    Damn I was waiting for a surprise announcements.

    Well I guess it will be a pretty limited army. I'm wondering if they will expand the line one day. Lot of things to do with Gargants in terms of crazy design etc...

    Have I missed a sons of behemat leak? Could you say which page it's on?

     

    Thanks!

  19. 10 minutes ago, TimeToWaste85 said:

    I think the only thing this really prevents is Verminlord Seer or Nurgle Legion of Chaos Ascendent and similar stuff; 5+/5++/5++/5++. Now it’s 5+/5++ and that’s it. GW made it very clear they don’t want unkillable Death Stars anymore. We shouldn’t either. A 2+/3++ re-rollable ScreamerStar was fun in 40k tournaments and abusive everywhere else because you couldn’t lose with it. This is a strategy game, not a “click, I win”. I PLAY Chaos, in every form except Beasts, and I appreciate these changes. Including the Realm artifacts. And yes, i day that as a player who felt a thermal-rider cloaked Keeper was an auto include before. 

    Yeah I agree this is a big step in the right direction. I play LoN and FEC and I am happy this is being introduced.

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  20. 1 hour ago, Azamar said:

    Precisely. If that’s legit you get one roll to negate after wounds have been allocated. But all armour saves are made before wounds are allocated. It won’t affect the majority of wound/mortal wound negating abilities, but cuts back on stuff like Nagash having 2 attempts to negate a mortal wound, then being able to pass of the mortal wound to a morghast and attempt  to negate it again. 

    Nagash cant do this, both morghasts and the immortis guard can take nagashs wounds, but the roll for nagash to shrug the wounds to them is *before* allocating wounds. Since ward saves are done when allocating a wound and then negate them, nagash only gets his armour save, then shrugs the wound to his guard, who then *do not* get an armour save, but *do* get their own ward save, as you allocate the wound to them.

     

    For instance - nagashs 4++ is done 'each time you allocate a wound to this model' - seeing as the roll to shrug off the wound to his guard is done 'before allocating wounds', he cannot do both his ward save and the shrug.

     

    But what nagash could do before this rule is have a 2+ rerolling 1s save, then a 2+ shrug onto immortis guard who have a 5++ from the spell ossiarch have, then a 6++ from their allegiance ability. If nagash failed the shrug and rolled a 1, he would then get a 4++, a 5++ from the spell that targets the caster and then a 6++ from allegiance. He can then also heal himself and his guard for 3 per turn automatically. I'm glad this rule is being introduced!

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